The Real Deal New York

From the May issue: Despite frequent auditory assaults by construction projects, sirens, loud stereos and 3 a.m. garbage pickups, New York until rather recently had the country’s oldest municipal noise code, which hadn’t been overhauled since the mid-1970s. The Bloomberg administration adopted the general Noise Control Code in 2005, a set of regulations that contains extensive provisions for construction, which accounts for almost half of all noise complaints the city receives. Now an expanded version, the Rules for Citywide Construction Noise Mitigation, has developers buzzing. The new regulations go into effect on July 1, and they aim to further muzzle the sounds of construction sites. more By Marc Ferris